Freakish Look-Alikes

As you may already know, I am a fairly big fan of twilight, (I wouldn't consider myself the biggest fan because I actually like a few other vampire stories better {my own... but of course, I'm hopelessly biased} but I still love twilight) and thus the characters must have found their way into my subconsciousness because in one of my recent random draw-whatever-you-see-sessions (these sessions are dangerous, last time I had one of those, I got the girl/guy in my Gender Check post) I drew several pictures that looked remarkably like twilight characters.


This one was somewhat intentional (hence the label I drew above his head) and I added the elf-ears on purpose, but the next two were totally unintentional.

Jasper? (Seriously, the hat makes him look like Jasper. I need a hat like that. Jasper is like my favorite twilight character. What do you mean Edward is better? He is NOT! Have you seen Robert Pattinson? Wait... you say the REAL Edward, the one you saw in your head when you first read the book is better than the "REAL" Jasper? Well I haven't seen either of these two, so BAH! Jasper rules).

Carlise? (At least that's who Jacob thinks he looks like, I actually think he looks more like Jack the Ripper) {Don't ask me how I know what he looks like.}

And no, I didn't draw one of Bella. I wonder why....

Maybe it's because she'd turn out looking like THIS?!

Or THIS!

(I know... You're asking "Since when did Bella have Black Hair, wear nice dresses and... BECOME A NUN?" Something is terribly wrong here.)

OR (dare I say it) THIS?!!!!!!!

(Nah... she looks more like Renee did in the movie than Bella. Lets see...)

Ah-ha! Here she is!

Wait... that's Nola Blackwell from Nashville Tennessee, a huge twilight fan who just WISHES she could be Bella, 'cause Edward deserves something WAY better than her... if you know what I mean... }:)

See? None of my pictures look like Bella. Not even the ones that drew with the intention of looking like her. But you see, maybe that's just because Bella is lame. This is what the person who deserves a super hot, mega strong and impossibly fast dude (aka someone like ISAAC WRIGHT {Edward's too lame and Jasper's taken}) looks like.

Who does she look like? He, he, he, he, he...

Weirdest Word of the Week: Fauxkay

I know, I know, you're writhing in pain in your computer chair as your reading this and screaming "NOOOOOO NOT ANOTHER WEIRD WORD OF THE WEEK!" but I just can't help myself. The Committee of Official Weirdness has declared me "Officially Weird" and, surprisingly, that is a title that I live up to. Here's how I live up to that title, just in case you want to be "Officially Weird" too.

• I write stories about vampires instead of stories about cute little puppies, butterflies and sunshine like every other sweet little teenage girl should.
• I'm honestly shocked when people tell me that the characters in my story aren't real (they write songs that I want on my iPod, okay, sometimes I get confused).
• I make up weird words that aren't in the dictionary (I mean who does that?).
• I draw pictures of mythological creatures in my journals instead of writing about my life.
• I wake up at 4 'o clock in the morning to type my story and willing donate 2 hours of my sleep-time every day to the world of ANGEL (that's the story Isaac Wright is in).
• I don't drink coffee. (That one REALLY shocks some people. They think it ISN'T HUMAN not to drink coffee. Well, according to the people at my school, I am kinda pale... but that's not my point.)

So, against all logic, all reason, and all of your merciful cries that you can't stand my insanity any longer, I have decreed that the word "Fauxkay" is the Weirdest Word of the Week.

Why? And what on earth does that vile word (it's only vile 'cause it ain't in the dictionary) even mean?

Well, as many of you (the ones who defy all logic and reason and can somehow stand hanging around me) already know, I like to take existing words and mess them up. One example of this is in the phrase "mot nee" which translates into "not me". I just swapped the first letters of each word. Another example is in my usage of the prefix "kick" and the sufix "tickle". You see, I like to add the word "kick" at the beginning of a lot of words because it gives them more... um... kick, I guess... and I like to add a "tickle" on the end because it's fun. Words like kickawsome (awesome with a kick), smartickle (smart with a tickle), kicklame (lame with a kick), kickzactly (exactly with a kick) and KiPod {pronounced KYE-pod} (kickiPod really doesn't work, 'cause I don't want anyone to do that to my iPod, so I shortened the "kick" part, but it still means, iPod with a kick) were created in this way.

So it really isn't a surprise that I made up a new word and I've decreed that it is the Weirdest Word of the Week. I do it all the time. It's part of my awesome "Official Weirdness".

Oh, right... you want to know what fauxkay (pronounced foe-KAY) means.

Well, basically, it's just a cooler way to say "Okay". I just thought it would be cool to change the first letter to an "F" and have it sound like foe-kay, but I didn't want to have that spelling, because I'd already taken the word "so" and turned it into the word "foe". Plus, the spelling "fauxkay" looks kinda French (French is the bomb, seriously) and "faux" means "fake" so when you say it it's like saying "I'm not kickzactly sure what you're saying is true, but okay" because with the "faux" part you're implying that what they said was "fake".

Of course, most people can't tell how you're spelling words when you say them (I really wish they could, I make good word jokes) so it's not very useful that way in speech... but whatever. Fauxkay is the Weirdest Word of the Week, and that is that. Any Questions? Comments?

Grim Poetry

Okay, my Language Arts teacher (who is, despite the fact that he give me nefarious projects sometimes, totally awesome) had arranged for our class to have a Cafe Day (a day where we eat doughnuts, cookies and drink hot chocolate while talking about the books we read that month) with the 7th graders since it may be his last year teaching at our school. I look forward to being there, eating all the doughnuts and baffling all the kids in my class once again at my inability to handle that much sugar (I totally loose my mind when I'm fed sugar, so be wise, my friends and don't do it), but there's a catch. To be allowed to eat the doughnuts, you have to do a project.

In the past we've done posters, CDs, skits, dress-up days, more posters, models, dioramas, even more posters and other fun projects that are basically like jazzed-up book reports, but this time, our teacher wants us to NOT DO A POSTER (Aw man! I've gotten so good at those!) and write a poem.

So that's what I did. But you see, the book I read this month was called THE KILLING OF WORLDS by: Scott Westerfeld and it's about this empire consisting of eighty worlds whose Emperor has supposedly created a piece of technology that can bring the dead back to life and grant them immortality. It's a really good book... but (spoiler warning) in the end it basically says that nothing can stop death and that, although we can postpone it, death is inevitable.

Kinda grim, right?

But I wrote a poem about it anyway, so I thought I might as well share it with you.

Enjoy:

DEATH
By: Caitlin Lawrence

From the very beginning man had a quest,
To stop the forces putting the dead to rest,
To confiscate death’s ruling power
So man would live at the very last hour.

But time went on and countless souls were lost,
People wept at bodies buried in frost,
Mourning the passing of what mattered most
And hoping one day, to death they could boast…

Of their sweet triumph over death’s strong hold,
That it was worth stopping the lives being sold,
And no law of nature could keep them enslaved,
That all men of earth could at last be saved.

But when man invented that splendorous device,
One that brought the dead back enough to suffice,
And the people believed that death had died
And not a soul realized that the man had lied…

A great war broke out to find what was true,
Making whole planets bruised black and blue,
Killing more men than death had taken,
Proving to man that death hadn’t been shaken.

“The dead are dying” the people cried,
“Kill the Emperor, for his foolish pride,
For thinking that he could stop such a thing,
And telling us that life would never be fleeting,”

We scream “Save us, someone, for our lives are lost,
Our fruitless quest came with a merciless cost
And now we know, better than anyone living
That life isn’t life unless it’s worth giving.”

“And no one, no matter how smart or high-minded,
Can make a device that can trump what’s been binded…
To us and our kind, our people, our wife…
Death is a natural part of life.”

My Writing Career

Okay, this is probably going to sound kickstreamly (extremely with a kick) weird but exactly one year ago today, while I was sitting in one of my incredibly boring classes at Totem Middle School, I received the idea for ANGEL. I wasn't sure what had given me the idea (besides MOONLIGHT of course) but throughout the day I kept on thinking about two people: a vampire dude with black hair who was being super awesome in my head and a blond human chick who wasn't being quite as awesome and was kinda scared of the vampire dude. As the day progressed I gave them names (I couldn't just call them vampire dude and human chick forever, I mean, what kinda books have characters named that?) and I wrote them down in my planner in the comments section for that day.

(No I do not have a picture of those names, so just forget about it.)

And so this post is mostly just to celebrate that this story has lasted so long. Most of my story ideas only stick around in my head for a few days and if I'm lucky, maybe a week before I recycle them and they become something else (recycling saves the planet you know). Before ANGEL, the longest running story I had was a series called TRIANGLE which lasted for four months. I mean, compared to ANGEL, that's just pathetic.

What's TRIANGLE?

Don't worry, all will be reveled eventually. First you must see the timeline.

Here is my writing career:

Age 0: I was born, I cried; the best idea I had was that momma should feed me.

Age 1-3: Made art out of food, smeared it everywhere

Age 4-9: Played with barbies, drew one page stories, played tons of make believe.

Age 10 - 11: The dark ages of my life - I spazzed like a hyped-up dementor. I also wrote STAR WARS comics, other rip-off comics and played out stories with Polly Pockets.

Age 12, August - October : Started writing Austin Keeper. Planned to write nine books. Only wrote eight and a half.

Age 12, October - December: Watched MOONLIGHT and wrote "Teeth" comics, Fantasy series, Academy series, came up with various other vampire-related story ideas.

Age 13, January - March: Wrote CHORA series and Untouchables series,. Untouchables was the first story I ever started typing. Totem did one good thing and gave me a typing class!

Age 13, April: Went back to "Teeth" comics for a while, toyed with random story ideas.

Age 13, May: Got idea for ANGEL, have been working on it (along with various other ideas that have come and gone) ever since.

NOW: Still working on ANGEL. (No it is not finished,. Be patient, okay? This is the first book I've ever written.)

Now, what are all these stories I mentioned about?

Here's another horrendous list of most of the stories I planned to publish (If I listed them all, this blog would go to China). Enjoy:

• Triangle - a story about a girl who was prophesied to have magical powers by an ancient man named Cralodi who discovered many of the secrets of life and obtained great power. His symbol was a Triangle with two halves of a triangle on either side, and it appeared on the backs of the necks of those who possessed its power. The power was hereditary though, so if your father head it, but your mother didn't, you would only have half of the symbol. It got kinda weird... but it was a good story.
• Austin Keeper - a huge rip off of Harry Potter in which I got the spelling of "of" and "off" confused with each other.
• Fantasy - a story about a girl who falls from the sky and finds herself in another world where fantasy-creatures exist. Better than AK, but still so-so.
• Teeth Comics - comics about an agent working for the CIA who is a vampire and is fighting to stop the evil terrorist Alano, who has enormous white hair that is longer than he is himself. The comic characters are all stick-figures, but it was awesome anyway, and sometimes, when I'm bored, I still draw then main character, Davalin Castlore.
• Academy series - one and a half books about a school for vampires, werewolves, witches and so forth. It was really weird, because the entire school staff was working against the government and the government wanted to kill everyone attending the school... but it was a lot better writing than anything I'd written before it.
• CHORA - a series that takes place on another planet where there are vampires. The main character Phearo, is a vampire, he has red eyes, which he has to wear sunglasses all the time to hide. He likes Lorune, a human he works with who doesn't know about him or the blood farm his pantry elevator has direct access to, but she likes Edis, a lame human (sounds kinda like Isaac's situation with Cassie... I wonder why...)
• Untouchables series - a series revolving around a girl named Ellista who lives in the future and works for an intelligence organization (like the CIA) who turns her into a vampire to magnify her skills and make her a better agent. Had good potential, better writing than ever and got 77 pages typed out in size twelve font, but it wasn't the right thing to do. I don't know how I knew that, but I did.
• Rythmics - a story about a civilization with DANCE POWER (whatever that is).
• Wired - a story about android spies... it didn't get much farther than that... I really didn't write it out.
• ANGEL - a story about Isaac Wright, the most deckish dude ever, and his troubles... it is still in progress, so I can't tell you too much because you might steal my ideas.
• ERASED - Another work in progress, about the after effects of a worldwide broadcast of an "Eraser" signal that destroyed almost all human life. The few survivors lived in facilities that gave them mind powers, such as levitation, mind reading, etc. and try to figure out what happened to all the people who are gone. It's quite intriguing actually, and scary to write at night.
• Victor the Undead - A story about a man who was stabbed several times by a jealous college professor after he discovered the existence of supernatural beings (ghosts) and found that he was now undead, unable to feel pain, and basically a zombie whose job was to find ghosts and send them to their final resting place.
• Vernon stories - There seems to be an endless number of these. Vernon is a reoccurring character who looks a ton like Isaac Wright and has appeared in my stories in the form of a merman, a werewolf, and a few other mythological, human-ish creatures. He just won't leave me alone, and it annoys me.
• Hunter - a story about a advanced targeting program created in the future that grew so intelligent that a secret organization decided to transplant his consciousness into a human body and turn him into an assassin. The targeting program, who has named himself Hunter Cross, works for them willingly, satisfied with his human existence until he realizes that they may not have the noble intentions that they say they do.

Of course, there's more than that... and there are even more stories that I have never thought of publishing that have ran through my head, but if you need to know about them all will be explained.

At least I hope it will be. If it isn't... The Committee of Official Weirdness (COW), will declare this blog, officially weird. (I'm already officially weird, but my blog isn't... yet)

So, ANGEL? Happy Birthday! You're one year old!

Weirdest Word of the Week: Urgle

Now I bet you're thinking Urgle? What kind of word is that?

I know, all will be explained, but first I must say that this word has no relation to the word Urgal which happens to be a rather disturbing creature in the book Eragon.

(<-- These are Urgals. Aren't they just totally nasty?)

(This is the book Eragon. It's not so nasty.)

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Now that you understand that, (or at least I hope you do, some of you may not.. I'm a little weird) I'll tell you why my word "Urgle" won the Weird Word of the Week (WWW) award.

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Reason number one: I have no idea what it means. I mean, I sorta have an idea 'cause I usually say it when I'm happy, sad, angry/feeling some strong emotion, but I can't give you any definitive synonyms.

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Reason number two: everyone seems to think I'm talking about the ugly guys with the odd black face makeup -- which makes me laugh, for some odd reason (and they don't seem to think that "I'm insane" is a good enough explanation).

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Reason number three: It's so much funner to say than most of my other words (except deckish, of course. I LOVE saying deckish) and it rhymes with "gurgle".

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What other words have gotten this award?

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Well, there's shwinggo (pronounced Sh-WING-go) which means "awesome", kickzactly (pronounced kick-ZACK-tuh-lee) which means "exactly, with a kick", Fuh-Zah, which is basically just an exclamation of awesomeness (like when I'm feeling awesome I just randomly say "Fuh-Zah" 'cause it's cool) and there's brilliance (which actually is a real word, but I use it sarcastically like most people use the word "great" so it's WAY better).

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When did shwinggo, kickzactly, Fuh-Zah and brilliance receive this award?

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Don't ask me. The Committee of Official Weirdness (COW) decides this, not me.

Gender Check

Okay, I know this is going to sound really weird, especially after ranting on about Isaac Wright, but I was drawing in my amazing pink journal like I always do, drawing pictures of Isaac Wright and oddly enough, a few other people too, and somehow, being undecided as to whether I wanted to draw a boy or a girl I drew two pictures of the same picture...

This...


And this...
And, though I can hardly believe it, I cant' decide whether or not this dude/dudett is a man or a woman!

I tried drawing a few other pictures of him/her so I could figure it out, but they didn't seem to help...

So, dare I do it, I am going to ask you what you think. What is this thing? Man or Woman?

I'm totally lost.

Who is this Isaac Wright Person?

As you may have noticed in my last post I mentioned a person named Isaac Wright. If this name sounds familiar, you probably have been spending too much time with me because I mention his name WAY too many times in my regular conversation. (I mention his name so much I have to come up with code names for him so I don't drive the people who hang around me insane enough to be locked in an asylum) But whether you've heard his name enough times to go insane or not you're probably still curious as to who this guy really is and why in the world I mention him so many times.

Unfortunately, that is a very long story.

You see, there have been stories in my head for as long as I can remember, stories about the green, blue and grey stick figures that were constantly at war with each other, stories about people with force-like powers and so on, but I didn't start trying to write any of them into novels ('cause I didn't know how to yet) until the day before seventh grade when I started writing a story I called Austin Keeper. It was a story that had been bobbing around in my head and had managed to get out onto paper in the form of many drawings for about a month but on that Labor Day night I got an inspiration that it was time to write it out and so I did.

(Just so you know, Austin Keeper is a HUGE rip-off of Harry Potter. The titles even have the same number of syllables! The plot was okay... but it was so similar to Harry Potter you couldn't read it back over without busting up laughing at how the same it was!)

While I was in the middle of writing Austin Keeper book #9 {I wrote a book per week and they averaged about 100 pages each so I'd only been writing the series for about two months} which was the book I was planning to end the series with mom told me to come and watch this show with her. She said it was "pretty interesting" so I decided I might as well.

This TV show changed my life. It was called MOONLIGHT and it is the most deckish show EVER! Some may not agree because there are a few parts in some of the episodes that you have to skip and 'cause there's VAMPIRES in it, but it's not like those other shows that you can't even watch 'cause the whole plot is just evil. I think it's a great show.

I know, all girls are supposed to watch shows about purty wittle butterflies and happy people dancing through fields of flowers and absolutely nothing that takes place at night, involves action and has a decent, engaging plot, but I just don't listen to that kinda stuff.) But I LOVED this show and it convinced me to drop Austin Keeper and start writing something with (dare I say it) VAMPIRES in it. (I know, I'm just totally evil.)

Now what does all this have to do with Isaac Wright?

You guessed it, Isaac Wright is one of those vampires in my stories.

Now he wasn't in the first story I tried to write after watching MOONLIGHT, that was called Fantasy and was really weird 'cause it had Seripmavs (backwards vampires) and all sorts of other stuff in it, but he is the main character of the story I am currently working on called ANGEL(don't ask why it's called that, it just IS)that was ultimately inspired by MOONLIGHT and he has literally taken over my life.

Why?

Because he's just SUPER-DUPER DECKISH! The only real reason I made up the word deckish was so that I could describe him! I mean it just fits him. He totally decks people, like, ALL THE TIME.

Now I bet you're dying to ask "What else does he do, besides deck people? Where does he live?" and "How can I avoid him because he sounds kinda creepy due to the fact that he's taken over a perfectly nice teenager's life?"

This is what you need to know:

• Isaac Wright was born to a human couple (Molly and Edward Wright) living in rural Washington on January 17th 1929.
• He was born as a human, not as a vampire.
• He was born at the start of the Great Depression so his parents decided not to give him any brothers or sisters due to low income issues.
• His father fought in World War II and was killed in battle when Isaac was ten.
• His mother was a terrible cook, so Isaac took of cooking and later started his own restaurant in Seattle (which wasn't a very large town back then) appropriately named Isaac's.
• On his twenty-seventh birthday, which he had been celebrating in his restaurant, he was transformed into a vampire by Elena Creighton (You'll learn more about her later).
• After she transferred him, she left without telling him what he was or how to control himself. Isaac, not knowing nor understanding what he was accidentally killed a few people. Oops! :(
• After two weeks of being confused, angry and somewhat suicidal, Maria, a nice, civilized, vampire who worked at the local hospital (she's kinda like a girl-version of Carlise, if you've read Twilight) found him, taught him how to control himself and offered to let him buy blood from a friend who worked at Puget Sound Blood Center.
• He accepted, was taught all that Maria knew and eventually was able to get a job and move into an apartment (he'd been living on the streets)
• Though he has had many jobs in the past, when we come into the story he works for a special-ops organization appropriately named Special Division (SD for short) composed of people who aren't exactly human (they're not vampires either, though, and have no idea that Isaac is one).
• This Division takes on the bizzare criminal cases and deals with the supernatural crimes that happen locally (as well as not quite so local cases) that the other crimminal investigative orginizations--the police, the FBI and the CIA--don't want to take on, or shouldn't take on, because doing so would lead to the exposure of vampirekind.
• This job basically consists of catches terrorists (vampire and human alike), stealing objects of international importance, investigating bizarre cases and using his super skills. (Don't worry, everyone in that organization is a little weird because it was organized for the people who were "mostly human", but were considered "too dangerous" to be in regular organizations like the CIA, so they don't ask Isaac why he can run faster than people should be able to, because they don't want him to ask why they can do the things they do.
• He does have to be careful that the other agents don't see his wings, or his teeth though. He's supposed to be "mostly human" not "something else entirely".
• He doesn't feel right biting people is right (I'm totally with him on that, but then again, I'm human so I'm not sure I can have an opinon) so he buys blood from Maria's human friend Tyler, who works at Puget Sound Blood Center and stores it in his freezer until he needs it, at which point he microwaves it to body tempurature and drinks it.
• He owns a midnight-blue Mustang, the latest model.
• Tons of girls he's seen only once become suddenly in love with him for no apparent reason. That seems to happen to a lot of vampires, so it's not totally abnormal, but it happens to Isaac so often that sometimes he's afraid to go to public places because he doesn't want to break any one's heart.
• Practically every vampire in the world knows his name (he basically destroyed Elena's reputation, and everyone hated her, so they all love him now) and there is a camera that follows him around and video tapes his entire life so you can watch it on this website called The Isaacam.
• He hates mosquitoes. (They like to steal his "food") but he hates the smell of all the mosquito repellents (they repel him too), so he can't get rid of them.
• He eventually falls in love with another one of my characters that he's been assigned to protect from a vampire who wants her blood, named Cassie Wilson, but after learning that he's a vampire, his presence puts her on edge and the two drift apart.
• Cassie also has a ugly/jerk/loser boyfriend named Michael Cook who she's been dating for one and a half years, which makes Isaac furious because he wants Cassie to be able to have a normal life and marry a human, but he believes that even he, a vampire, is better for Cassie than Michael.
• He cannot transform other people by biting them. To transform another person into a vampire he has to replace some of their blood with his, which can be done in many different ways.
• Wooden stakes don't kill him, they only paralyze him if you stab him through the heart, but then again, so does everything else you stab through his heart because it can't really beat when something is stabbed through it. However, if you stab a vampire in the heart with a wooden stake and then cut off their head, then they die, because while they're staked, they can't heal.
• The sunlight does NOT cause him to burst into flames, however, since his body doesn't allow him to get sunburns, the ultra-violet rays burn his blood instead and that can be bad, because his body cannot replace it on their own (that's why he has to eat it).
• He cannot transform into a bat, but he does have bat-like wings he stores where his lower intestines and kidneys should be (his whole system is totally rewired so that he doesn't need those organs) and can pull out when needed as well as retractable vampire fangs that he can swap out with normal looking teeth.
• He is not super pale, like Edward Cullen. When he gets hungry, he is, because he doesn't have any blood in his veins, but when he's fed he looks perfectly normal. People just thought vampires were super white back in the medieval days because everyone then was super tan from working in the sun and vampires, who obviously didn't work in the sun, weren't.
• He has lived in Seattle his entire life and still lives there today. He didn't move there after becoming a vampire, but that is a common practice. Vampires like the clouds. :)

Okay I know that was a lot of information and there's a lot more where that came from, but that was the basics. If you have any more questions just ask me, but I figured that you'd all ask "What does he look like?" So I decided to answer that question for you.

Here are a few pictures of Isaac Wright:

Isaac Wright is the guy with the wings, not the lamo (pronounced LAME-oh) terrorist dude he's carrying off to be interrogated while the other agents aren't looking.


Here he is standing in the rain and looking all professional (he does that a lot and he's really good at it)

And this is him interrogating a terrorist. After the agents he works with figure out he's a vampire, of course, but it looks like it's not going so well for Isaac. This guy's not really scared of vampires.

(Oh and if you happen to be one of those people who can actually tolerate being around me, you may have seen this journal before. Um yeah, this is basically all I do in there. Draw pictures of Isaac Wright. Just in case you wondered.)

So that's just about it. :)

But then you all say "NO WAIT! I wanna see the first picture you drew of him, Caitlin! I weally do!" So I say "Fine, here it is,":

Yeah... I know. He looks like, nothing like the other pictures. I wasn't a very good drawer back then, and, believe it or not, it was incredibly hard to get the dude that was dancing around in my head (Isaac Wright) to slow down so that I could get a good look at his face. These things take time.

He's transformed over time. This is what he looked like for a long time.

Oh, and that girl he's asking the EPIC QUESTION is named Cassie Wilson . I mentioned her earlier. (I draw my male lead characters asking this question a lot. That's why it's called the EPIC QUESTION)

This is what he looks like now:

Pretty awesome huh?

Oh, and one more thing (I know, you're tired of him already, but just bear with me here). If you ever see Isaac (or anyone else for that matter) looking at you like this...

...run away. Those are thirsty eyes and they generally mean that the person whose staring at you isn't looking at that new shiny necklace you bought... but at your neck... and that's not good.

Of course, Isaac probably won't do this to you becasue ever since Maria trained him he's been REALLY GOOD about keeping himself under control, however, you can avoid finding yourself in such situations with other vampires by:

• Eating garlic (they HATE the way it smells on you).
• Wearing lots of mosquito repellent (dido).
• Wearing bright colors (most vampires find them depressing because the remind them of the sun).
• Not going out after dark unless you really have to (that's when they come out, duh).

Think you know enough about him now?

Yeah, way too much, I know but now you can quit wondering who this Isaac Wright person is now.

Deck, Deckish, Deckonate and the Origins Thereof

Hooray! I am finally starting a blog! I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to do on this blog (besides blow your mind with just how weird I am and wind up humiliating myself in the process) but since I'm such a creative person I figured that starting a blog was another field I could excel in and that it would be fun to try. Of course every rose has it's thorns and my thorns might be within the blogging realm (I honestly don't know, I could really stink at this) but I'm sure you're just dying to know what this word "deckish" means and so I will take pity on thee (because I'm just nice that way) and answer your question.

To put it simply, the word "deckish" is merely a word I use as a substitute for the word "awesome". Of course, that is not the only definition of the word, but to fully understand what this word means (beyond the simple, kindergarten definition "awesome") you have to understand it's origins.

You see, the word "deckish" is actually derived from the word "deck". Not the wooden thing connected to your house that you use for barbecues and outdoor parties, but the slang-ish word "deck" that actually means something more along the lines of "pummel" "knock over" "beat up" or "take down". And since I was tired of saying "Isaac Wright (you'll learn more about him later) can really deck people" the word "deckish" was created to describe things, or people that had the ability to "deck" things.

But of course, since people who are able to pummel people are usually really cool (I mean there are some really bad people who can pummel too, but the coolest good guys are the ones who can take like ten dudes with guns with a single spinning kick) the word "deckish" has evolved to mean "awesome" as well as equipped with a super-ability to take out bad guys.

Understand? Good.

But wait. There's more.

You see, I just can't stop talking about Isaac Wright (it drives my dad nuts) and saying that "he could totally deck, like, everything" got old too. So I, like I always do when the English Dictionary doesn't provide me with what I want, made up a new word.

Deckonate. Pronounced DEK-uh-nate

Now what does THIS word mean? Well, since the root word of "deckonate" is "deck" which means to pummel/take down/beat up stuff, and the "ate" part of the word "deckonate" is also part of the word "annihilate", the word "deckonate" means to totally destroy/take down something in a manner that is totally awesome and can be matched by no other force.

Basically "deckonating" somone simply means that you are WAY stronger/faster/cooler than them and therefore you toally whoop them.

And why do I need so many words to describe taking out people? I mean, isn't that like a VIOLENT thing? Shouldn't I be thinking about flowers and butterflies and sunshine and princessess and all sorts of other purty wittle things?

No. I got bored of stuff like that in like, second grade.

But, if you read on, you'll understand why I need these words. Because some people (namely, Isaac Wright) can only be described as one thing:

Totally Deckish.